Homeowners in late middle age, most of them settled and staying. Seven in ten own their homes. The typical resident is in their mid fifties. Getting on for four in ten households are a single person. Tintagel is a village of people who already made their move, which is a different thing from a village that nobody wants to move to.
Tenure is heavily weighted towards ownership. Around 71% own, about 26% rent privately, and roughly 3% rent socially. That private rental share is larger than the ownership figure alone would suggest, and in a parish with a substantial holiday-letting economy the long-term rented sector competes for stock with the short-term one.
The age profile is the fact that shapes everything else. The median resident is 56. Only about 14% of the population sits in the 25 to 44 band, which is the age range that normally supplies a village with its young families, its evening trade and its workforce. Those numbers come from the 2021 census, which is the source for every population figure on this page.
Household income runs to around £41,150 a year gross, before tax. That is a modelled figure describing the financial year to March 2023 rather than a current wage, and it describes total household income rather than a single earner's pay. It is the number that explains why the local property market runs largely on equity brought in from elsewhere.
Families are a minority here and a clear one. Roughly 11% of households are a couple with dependent children, and about 6% are a lone parent with them. That is a small share of the village, and it lines up with the thin working-age band above it.
Single-person households are the largest single category at around 38%, and about 22% of all households are a pensioner living alone, which is a subset of that first figure rather than an addition to it. One household in five being an older person on their own is the kind of fact that decides what a village actually needs, and it is not more parking.
On qualifications, roughly 27% of residents hold a degree-level qualification and about 21% hold none. There are no full-time students recorded here at all, which is what happens when the nearest anything is 40 minutes away by car. The mix is broad rather than concentrated at either end.
Health self-reports are reasonable. About 75% of residents describe their health as good or very good, and roughly 8% as bad or very bad. Across the wider Cornwall council area, adult smoking sits at around 12% and is rated similar to England, and the preventable mortality rate is also rated similar to England. Those are local-authority figures against a national benchmark rather than Tintagel's own.
The demographic profile is one of the weaker parts of the case for living here, and the reason is arithmetic rather than judgement. A village with a median age of 56, a thin working-age band, no students and modest household incomes is a comfortable place to arrive at and a difficult one to start out in.